Railway-coach



(No Model.) F M. GOETZE.

RAILWAY COACH.

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MAX GOETZE, or ron'r MEADE, SOUTH DAKOTA.

RAI LWAY-COAC H SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.482,634, dated September 13, 1892.

Application filed March 26. 1892. Serial No. 426,543- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX GOETZE, a citizen of the United States, residingat Fort Meade, in the county of Meade and State of South Dakota,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Coaches; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appcrtains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in railway-coaches; and it hasfor its general object to so form coaches that the same will be thrownlaterally in case of a collision, and thereby be prevented fromtelescoping.

A further object of my invention is to so couple or connect the carsthat the same will be held together during travel, but will beautomatically uncoupled or disconnected in case one should be thrownfrom the track.

To the attainment of the foregoing objects the invention consists in soarranging the transverse edges of the platforms and the end walls of thecoach that they will, approximately speaking, respectively rest at anobtuse angle to one side wall and at an acute angle to the other sidewall, whereby it will be perceived that when the end of one car isjammed against the end of the other it will take laterally instead ofentering the car.

The invention further consists in the provision of a peculiar andadvantageous construction of coupler through the medium of which twocars will be automatically disconnected when one is thrown off thetrack.

The novelty of my invention will be fully understood from the followingdescription and claim, when taken in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a train of cars orcoaches embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of my improved coupler removed, and Fig. 4 is avertical longitudinal section of the same.

In the said drawings similar letters designate corresponding partsthroughout the several Views, referring to which-- A indicates thebottom of my improved car, the edges of which describe a parallelogram,as better illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Rising from the bottom A of the car at a suitable distance from the endsthereof are the vertical end walls 13, which are arranged parallel withthe said ends of the bottom for a purpose presently to be described.

Suitably connected to the bottom A and end walls B are the vertical sidewalls 0 of the cars, each of which, in conjunction with. the end wallsB, forms an acute angle and an obtuse angle, as illustrated.

Mounted upon and suitably secured to the end and side walls 13 C is thetop D, with an overhanging hood cl, which is preferably of acorresponding shape to the bottom A, as illustrated.

By reason of the bottom A and the top D, with its hood, being of thepeculiar shape, illustrated and described and the end walls B beingrespectively arranged at an acute angle to one side wall and at anobtuse angle to the other side wall it will be readily perceived thatwhen one end of a car or coach is forced or jammed against the end ofanother car or coach it will slide laterally thereon and will be thrownfrom the track, when through the medium of the coupler presentlydescribed it will be disconnected from the car remaining on the track,so as not to draw the same off.

Suitably connected to the ends of the cars in the ordinary or anyapproved manner are the draw-heads G of my improved coupler, which havetheir outer ends beveled, so that the same will rest at an acute angleto one side wall and at an obtuse angle to the other side wall inconformity to the shape of the cars.

Formed in the shorter sides of the drawheads G and extending from theouter ends thereof a sufficient distance are slots H, which are designedand adapted to receive and allow a lateral play of the links I, whichare provided with eyes at their inner ends designed to receive the pinsof their respective drawheads and are provided at their opposite endswith hooks to engage the pins of other draw-heads. By this constructionof drawhead it will be readily perceived that should a car be thrownfrom the track the links carried by its draw-heads will disengage fromthe pins carried by the draw-heads of the cars to which it is connected,whereby it will be seen that the car that leaves the track will not pullother cars with it.

Although I have specifically described the the side walls having slotsformed therein and construction and relative arrangement of the onopposite sides thereof, and a link with a several elements of myimprovements, yet I hook and eye, adapted to be connected to the 15 donot desire to be confined to the same, as couplings by means of pins,substantially as 5 such changes or modifications may be made and for thepurposes specified.

as fairly fall within the scope of my invention. In testimony WhereofIaffix my signature in Having thus described my invention, what presenceof two Witnesses. I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isMAX GOETZE. to The combination, with the cars of the char Witnesses:

acter described, of the couplings having their J. J. DAVENPORT,

front portions beveled in opposite directions, H. E. PERKINS.

